Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosChief Product Officer at Adobe, Scott Belsky, discusses his beliefs on creating the first mile of your product. His immediate suggestion is to focus on your newest customers. Why? You…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, LeadershipThe Holidays and the end of the year is sometimes a time we quietly ask ourselves, after a few (or more) years in … Could Someone Do a Better Job…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosMallun Yen, COO at SaaStr interviews Magdalena Yesil, one of the pioneers in the SaaS industry. She’s the first investor and founding board member of Salesforce, author of Power Up,…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Featured VideosAutodesk recently opened up its checkbook to do its first ever big acquisition in 35 (!) years — acquiring PlanGrid for almost $1 billion! Wow. Tracy Young did two amazing…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Early, Engineering, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosThis session at SaaStr Annual 2018 featured Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato HQ and Jeffrey Queisser CoFounder and SVP, Engineering of BOX. They talk about the pyramid you need to…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosWell-known storytellers, Jason Katz – Chief Storyteller @ Pixar, and Peter Arvai – Co-Founder & CEO @ Prezi, held a powerful session on all things storytelling at SaaStr Annual 2018….
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Career Growth & Advice, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosWe recently had the honor of hosting Merci Grace, Slack’s very first head of product, at the SaaStr Co-Selling Space for a deep dive session with SaaStr COO Mallun Yen…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, VideosCo-Founder and CEO at GoCardless, Hiroki Takeuchi and CEO and Founder at Shipamax, Jenna Brown on their switch from the employee role to the founder role and what they learned…
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Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Q&AIn rough order: The “surprise springer”. Big surprises that could have been disclosed long ago, in a lower-drama format, pop up at a board meeting. Often repeatedly. The “third check-er”….
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, SalesIn my experience at least, strong salespeople fail all the time in new roles. Good reps, that could otherwise do well, and have in the past. And it feels like…
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Career Growth & Advice, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosThe SaaStr Co-Selling Space was a-buzz last month when Zoom’s Head of Marketing (and the company’s very first marketing hire to boot) Janine Pelosi sat down with SaaStr COO Mallun…
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Career Growth & Advice, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosAt this past year’s Annual, Ex-Marketo CEO Philip Fernandez graced the SaaStr stage to share his top learnings from his time at the company, from building and scaling the team,…
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Career Growth & Advice, Marketing, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosAt our inaugural Saastr Europa in Paris this past June, Accel Partner Luciana Lixandru and UiPath CMO Bobby Patrick discussed what breaks when your business goes into hypergrowth mode (hint: pretty…
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